The UK is facing the worst inflation for decades, fuelled by rampant energy prices. So what has the government been doing?

Since Boris Johnson resigned on 7 July there has been little comfort for people and businesses looking ahead to real hardship this winter. With the on multiple holidays and the leadership candidates desperately trying to impress Tory members with impossible promises, there was no real indication of whether the government would help.

Now we’re finally hearing new PM Liz Truss’s plans to deal with this crisis. They show she is completely unable to grasp how this crisis will affect people across the country.

As I said in Parliament this morning, politics is about choices. Instead of putting money back into working people’s pocket, the Prime Minister is choosing to permit bigger bonuses for bankers. Instead of taxing oil and gas companies’ windfall profits, she’s choosing to make the British people pay for her energy policy. Instead of boosting the cheap renewable energy we need, she wants to push polluting and ineffective gas fracking.

There are alternatives. While the Tories have wasted the last few months, Labour has been putting together detailed solutions to this crisis. Labour’s plan would freeze energy bills, meaning people wouldn’t have to pay a penny more this winter. This should be funded by a windfall tax on oil and gas companies. We should be insulating homes and ramping up our capacity to generate clean energy. I will keep raising these points in Parliament.

After months of zombie government, the PM must prioritise working people, not just oil companies and bankers.